Hello, I should explain that although I'm a home user I have worked in tech support for an Internet Service Provider here in England. Over the past few weeks I have had an e-mail discussion over the internet with various groups of people who are to do with Linux and Samba. One of the more confusing issues is that "does win 98 need a encrypted password for use with Samba". We are all a bit confused about the use of Samba with Windows 98? . Yesterday I had an e-mail chat to the System Engineer in the central IT department at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He says that all his win 98 machines won't communicate with the rest of the network through Samba. I've got Samba 2.0 next to me on my Linux box. I can't find any docs about using it with win 98. Does anyone know of any way out of this ? Kind regards. ------------------------------------------- Richard Sheffield UK http://www.zen.co.uk/home/page/r.ibbotson http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ribbotson -------------------------------------------